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Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak

The 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak is an ongoing public health emergency across the world. It's caused by a new strain of coronavirus first identified in Wuhan City, China, in December 2019. The official name for the infectious respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus is COVID-19 and symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath. The virus itself has been named SARS-CoV-2 and is closely related to the virus that caused the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003. The epidemic is rising in multiple countries at the same time, meaning it is now what's called a pandemic